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How have the struggles against untouchability changed their forms and perspectives from Gandhian to Ambedkarite positions?

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  • Caste System

The shift from M. K. Gandhi to B. R. Ambedkar is not one of temperament but of diagnosis: for Gandhi untouchability was a corruption of Hinduism, for Ambedkar a product of it. Every change in the form of struggle follows from that disagreement.

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